Re: Bug#55448 acknowledged by developer (recompile bsdgames with ncurses5)
Joel Klecker wrote:
t> At 16:33 -0800 2000-01-22, Joey Hess wrote:
> >I brought this up on debian-devel several days ago, and I was told
> >ncurses4-dev would be put back in potato.
>
> Tell whoever said that congratulations on adopting ncurses4.2.
> It's certainly news to me that libncurses4-dev is returning, I certainly
> have no intention of trying to figure out how to get dpkg to DTRT with it.
> That on top of one maintainer of a package in base making an idiotic remark
> about not recompiling his package with ncurses5 sealed the fate of
> libncurses4-dev as far as I'm concerned.
Richard Braakman is the person who said this.
| As I understand it, libncurses4-dev was removed as a quick fix for an
| overlap problem. We're going to need it back before the release, because
| as you point out, we'd otherwise be releasing a lot of packages "without
| source".
If you refuse to be reasonable about this, then we have two choices:
1. Ship potato with packages that can not be compiled with the source in
potato.
2. Recompile 240 packages in the middle of the freeze. Welcome to another
long freeze..
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see shy jo
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